Hacker News: dueyfinster

New comment by dueyfinster in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

dueyfinster — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:05:04 +0000

It is sad to see how far GitHub has fallen. Will also be interesting to where mitchellh takes the project, I imagine codeberg and sources are possibilities.

I looked up my own ID and GitHub join date from the API, all the way back in 2009: https://api.github.com/users/dueyfinster

New comment by dueyfinster in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

dueyfinster — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 19:54:58 +0000

Mine is https://www.neilgrogan.com blogging very sporadically since 2004.

New comment by dueyfinster in "Fossil versus Git"

dueyfinster — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 11:59:58 +0000

I never had a good experience with mercurial from memory. Docs and examples weren't as good (not that Git was hugely better, but network effects had more resources available). I remember the CLI commands being a small bit more intuitive but as someone new to DVCS at the time (as most people would have been) - it didn't really do anything special to help new users get a handle on the mental model for how it works. I remember Facebook publicly using / backing it, was surprised they didn't do more to promote it.

New comment by dueyfinster in "10 years of personal finances in plain text files"

dueyfinster — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 13:49:52 +0000

I'm a big fan of plain text accounting also. Like the author - I started 10 years ago (mine from 2015). I use hledger mainly and also wrote converters for bank I use (xlsx to csv).

It's crazy to see just how much money I've paid Netflix since 2015 (and I'm a sub since 2011). Or Starbucks (which I rarely go to). But it's very powerful. One thing I've long wanted is better visualizations.

New comment by dueyfinster in "Linux is good now"

dueyfinster — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 13:39:45 +0000

Interesting, do you think game devs in future will just target windows/proton and not bother with native Linux ports?

New comment by dueyfinster in "I'm a developer for a major food delivery app"

dueyfinster — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 11:47:27 +0000

It may be that they have no choice since it's their biggest source of customers. I spoke to a hotel receptionist before and she said the order of upgrades was: booked direct, booking.com, Expedia and all the rest after. The hotel couldn't afford to piss off booking as they would suffer a lot in occupancy, the other platforms couldn't match. I think it's worth giving the feedback to the restaurant direct and see if they can fix it. It's always a delicate balance depending on time and the app may penalize them.

New comment by dueyfinster in "Ruby 4.0.0"

dueyfinster — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 19:35:52 +0000

I've done the pragmatic studio elixir and erlang courses and they are high quality. They do the same for Ruby and Rails[1]

[1]: https://pragmaticstudio.com/rails

New comment by dueyfinster in "A wonderful coincidence or an expected connection: why π² ≈ g"

dueyfinster — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 10:02:59 +0000

To be honest I'm not a fan, time is cumbersome to do any sort of addition or subtraction to get exact days/hours/minutes (not to mention timezones etc).

Compare to metric units, always base 10 and always easy to convert mm to cm to m and so on.

Now that we live in a digital world - why do we consistently reinvent date/time libraries? To me that's proof enough the concepts are just hard to work with and over a long span of time verify your calculation is correct.

New comment by dueyfinster in "How Home Assistant is being used to protect from missile and drone attacks"

dueyfinster — Sun, 26 May 2024 08:46:19 +0000

Fascinating use of HomeAssistant. He mentioned uptime monitor in the next section - I wonder what he uses to ensure it stays online? I would guess some sort of UPS or battery backup.

New comment by dueyfinster in "Ask HN: Share your personal site"

dueyfinster — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 08:56:26 +0000

https://www.neilgrogan.com - I'll be 20 years [sporadically] blogging in 2024 (originally started it on blogger as a way to get a gmail account)

New comment by dueyfinster in "Ask HN: What automation tools have you used to replace mundane activities?"

dueyfinster — Sun, 23 Feb 2020 16:20:57 +0000

I've done various versions of this myself, would you mind sharing your code?

New comment by dueyfinster in "Why SQLite succeeded as a database (2016)"

dueyfinster — Sun, 23 Feb 2020 16:18:25 +0000

I use Huffduffer[1] either by searching for someone who has added it already[2] or adding it directly with details and a link to the mp3 myself. Then add your huffduff feed to Overcast (can add based on tags also).

[1]: https://huffduffer.com/ [2]: https://huffduffer.com/neaj/543363

New comment by dueyfinster in "Bash 5.0 released"

dueyfinster — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 16:53:13 +0000

this video might help you [1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA_IBcoQTD4

New comment by dueyfinster in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)"

dueyfinster — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 11:42:59 +0000

We build the next generation of network management, analytics and orchestration solutions for operators around the world. We're one of (if not the) largest software development sites in Ireland. See more about our campus here: https://www.ericsson.com/careers/blog/career-topics/life-at-...

We're currently working on Cloud orchestration in 5G, going live with trials and helping our customers in the race to the connected society.

You can see all the positions here: https://jobs.ericsson.com/jobs?page=1&location=Athlone

We also have an Open Source role(s): https://jobs.ericsson.com/jobs/257494 which is probably somewhat unique for tech companies in Ireland!

New comment by dueyfinster in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)"

dueyfinster — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 13:44:52 +0000

We build the next generation of network management, analytics and orchestration solutions for operators around the world.

We're currently working on 5G, going live with trials and helping our customers in the race to the connected society.

You can see all the positions here: https://jobs.ericsson.com/jobs?page=1&location=Athlone

New comment by dueyfinster in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)"

dueyfinster — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 10:03:50 +0000

We build the next generation of network management, analytics and orchestration solutions for operators around the world.

We're currently working on 5G, going live with trials and helping our customers in the race to the connected society.

You can see all the positions here: https://jobs.ericsson.com/jobs?page=1&location=Athlone

New comment by dueyfinster in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)"

dueyfinster — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 12:11:51 +0000

We build the next generation of network management, analytics and orchestration solutions.

We're currently working on 5G, going live with trials and helping our customers in the race to the connected society.

You can see all the positions here: https://jobs.ericsson.com/jobs?page=1&location=Athlone&stret...

New comment by dueyfinster in "Quickly navigate your filesystem from the command line"

dueyfinster — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 20:42:33 +0000

I've updated the completion code to work on ubuntu and os x:

http://neil.grogan.ie/2013/08/quickly-navigate.html

New comment by dueyfinster in "I am not a css hacker but please HN change your css. smartphone experience suck"

dueyfinster — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:22:17 +0000

agree here too, love the distraction free mode

Chrome vs. Internet Explorer Audience

dueyfinster — Sat, 20 Jul 2013 21:35:41 +0000

Article URL: http://dueyfinster.com/2012/10/chrome-vs-internet-explorer-audience.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6076657

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